Greeting card



March 22, 1932.

F. WEINDEL, JR

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Patented Mar.=22, 19321 UNITED?STATES rnnnwnmnnnan or ALLENTOWN, r NNsYLvANImAssreNonTo.L; r. Gamma. so s, me, or ALLENTOWN', PENNSYLVANIA, ACORPORATIONiOF MARYLAND GREETING CARD ,Application filed December 20, 1930. Serial No; 503,618.

This invention relates to cards such as are T used insending personal greetings on birthdays, holidaysor similar occasions.

Inconnection with? cards of the type referred to I-aim to secure ornamental efiects which are impossible with use of paper-alone. This desideratuin I attainthrough employ ment' with a ground or foundation sheet a thin I metallic facing capable of .einb'ellishr' IIlQIlt. through embossing, burnishing, contrast coloring, high spot polishing-,etc, with predetermination in the cards of an artistic finish which is'distinctive and highly attrac tive.

A further object of invention is to provide such facing "with he an aperture through which a portion of the surface of the (paper) foundation sheet is exposed for the signature of the sender or for; other personal inscrip tions which he or she may-wishto apply.

IVith reference-to the drawings hereunto attached, Fig. I is a perspective view of my improved greeting card. p I

Fig. II shows across sectional view of the card taken as indicated by the arrOwsII-II in Fig. I and,

view of the metallic sheet material from which the ornamental facing of the card is I formed.

' To produce the composite greeting card of my invention, I employ a foundation sheet 5 which may be of paper, cardboard, celluloid,

or any other non=metallic material capable of being written upon. To this foundation sheet 5, I permanently attachan embossed or otherwise ornamented facing of thin metallic sheet materiahjsuch asjindicated at '6 in Figs. I and II,'the same being: in the present instance formed 'with an, aperture. 7 through which a portion of the surface of the founda-.

tion sheet 5 is exposed for application of the V signature or other inscriptions of the sender.

The facing Gmaybeformed as an apertured blank bydie stamping it from adhesive-backed metallic sheet material, that is to say: from material ofthe kind'conven- I tionally shown in section in FigIII, consisting of a layer-8 of verythinpliable, metal such/as brass copper, bronze or aluminumto Fig. III is a diagrammatic cross sectional which a thin backing layerof paper 9 is secured by a layer 10 of adhesive, the paper.

being in turn coated on: its exposed face with a layer llof adhesive. Thus the interposed paper fabric sheet orjlayer 10, substantially coextensive with the facing 6, serves to unite the latter to the foundation 5 securely; Me'- tallic sheet material of the specified kind lends itself'to clean profile cutting and em-, .bossing with'dies, as Well as toembellishment by contrastcoloring, burnishing, high spot polishing etc, with attainment of correspond 111g ,variatlons in theultimate' appearance ofthe cards, This facing 6 I attach to the paper foundation sheet 5 byfirst moistening the exposed adhesive backingqll, andthen subjecting the foundation sheet 5 and the facing 6 to pressure for a time interval sufficient toinsure setting of the. adhesive gum'll.

In addition to theartifices already men tioned, the facing 6 may obviously bemade f smaller in'area than thefoundationsheet 5 h and variously profiledso that the field of variations possible within the scope of the appended claims is virtually limitless. By virtue of thethinness of the facing6, the weight of my improved greeting cards is not appreciably increased over that of ordinary greeting cards, yet rendered {stiffer through the embossings of the facing 6.

of course be furnished separately to printers or Stationers so that the senders name may be printed on the ground sheet 5 before application OfjtllG facing 6 if this should be;

desirable.

Having thus described .my invention I claim ing card comprising a non-metallic foundafoundati'on sheet, said facing and said interfoundation sheet for inscription.

2. As an article of manufacture,-a greet ing card conipr singa foundation'sheet; a

thin, pliable metallic-facing sheet, ornamen- The ground sheets 5 and the facings 6 may I .95" posed fabric being apertured. to expose the tally embossed; and interposed sheet fabric,

substantially coextensive with said facing, adhesively attached to said facing and foundation sheets and thus uniting them; the facin sheet being apertured to expose a sheetfiJehind it for inscri tion.

In testimony whereo I have hereunto signed my name at Allentown, Pennsylvania, this 18th day of December, 1930.

H FREDWEINDEL, JR. 

